On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote: > >> It was somewhat difficult to install on Centos (mostly just getting a > >> Sun JVM installed sanely) until they added the yum repository. It is > >> still somewhat complicated to deal with all of the things it can do so > >> I'd suggest joining the mailing list if you haven't already. It does > >> support many more devices out of the box than netdisco, including hosts > >> as well as network equipment. If you want it to collect snmp data for > >> graphs on the switch ports that don't have addresses you can set > >> collection manually for each one or just change snmpStorageFlag to "all' > >> in datacollection-config.xml. > > > > OpenNMS is now crawling my network and discovering all the servers. > > I'm not seeing how to find which switch and port each device is > > plugged into. If I browse to a node and click on it's network > > interface, it says this: > > > > -------------------------- > > Link Node/Interface > > No link information has been collected for this interface. > > -------------------------- > > > > Is that where the port and switch information is supposed to show up? > > Or am I looking in the wrong place? > > Back to my first email message when I thought you were already using > OpenNMS... You have to uncomment the Linkd service in > etc/service-configuration.xml, then restart opennms and give it some > time to probe. Then it should show from the 'View Node Link Detailed > Info' at the top left of a node page. The weakest part of the program > is the web admin section. While it does a lot, there is much more that > you can control via the xml config files. ---- OK, I've been tracking this conversation, installed/configured/started OpenNMS and have discovered everything and in fact, edited service-configuration.xml as recommended. I'm sort of comparing this to Zenoss which I had to stop (snmp conflicts) to run OpenNMS. I can see each port on the 48 port managed switch and go to 'View Node Link Detailed Info' but it doesn't tell me much about the device/computer plugged into a specific port. While I don't want to be quick to dismiss OpenNMS, it seems to fall way short of Zenoss so I'm thinking that there's a bunch of stuff that probably needs to be tweaked. I got the impression that NetDisco would actually tell me the IP Address (perhaps reverse the DNS name) of the device connected to specific port on my managed switch. I didn't go for the NetDisco route for install because I didn't like the idea of getting a bunch of CPAN perl modules installed rather than using rpm packages. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.